June 27, 2014 11:10 p.m. | Wesley and Robert Washington Jr. were outside their Glendale home Thursday, playing basketball, when their father came out and wanted to play, too.

The sons were reluctant; the father joined anyway.

After going up for a rebound, he fell to the ground.

Robert Washington Sr. went back inside.

According to Sean Kelly, a family friend: When the father re-emerged, he had a gun. He shot Wesley, 15, twice. Robert, 20, ran over and tried to tackle his father. A bullet pierced the right side of the elder son's chest.

June 26, 2014 10:37 p.m. | Glendale police have arrested a man suspected of shooting and killing one of his sons and injuring another Thursday afternoon.

A 20-year-old was killed and a 15-year-old was injured and called police after the shooting, according to Detective Troy Nitschke. About a dozen police and rescue vehicles were on the scene just after 2:30 p.m.

Police Department spokesman Joel Dhein said the shooting occurred inside a house in the 1000 block of W. Theresa Lane.

When officers arrived, they found the wounded 15-year-old attending to the 20-year-old victim, Dhein said.

Officers pulled the 20-year-old to the driveway of a neighboring home first before administering first-aid because they did not know where the shooter was, Dhein said.

June 26, 2014 9:29 p.m. | Sometimes when a team gets beat soundly, its coach will just tip his cap and say "We got beat by a better team".

But in the case of the Homestead baseball team's 10-4 victory over visiting Germantown Thursday night at beautifully refurbished Rennicke Field, winning coach Ernie Millard said he sort of felt sorry for Germantown, because the Warhawks handed the Highlanders opportunity after opportunity courtesy of six errrors.

"They (the Warhawks actually came out and played well at the beginning), but then they had one bad inning (the fifth, with three errors and five Homestead runs) and we took advantage," said Millard. "We were able to score but we didn't exactly tear the cover off the ball."

The win came on the heels of a completion of a suspended game between the two squads that was played at Germantown. In that game, the score was 11-11 in the top of the 11th and Homestead used three hits, including a Bryce Juedes RBI single and a passed ball to score two runs in that frame to pull out a 13-11 win.

Then the two teams boarded their buses and headed down Mequon Road to Rennicke Field for a regularly scheduled game on a rare beautiful June night.

June 26, 2014 7:38 p.m. | (Editor’s note: This story was updated at 1 p.m. on July 1 with information from the criminal complaint against Robert C. Washington, Sr.)

Glendale — The Glendale man who allegedly shot his two sons told police he was being bullied by his son during a game of basketball.

Robert Washington, 57, has been charged with killing one of his sons and injuring his other son shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday outside their house at 1011 West Theresa Lane.

Washington has been charged with first degree reckless homicide in the death of his 20-year-old son Robert Washington, Jr. and first degree reckless injury in the shooting of his 15-year-old son Wesley Washington. Washington faces a maximum 85-year prison sentence if convicted.

Wesley, the younger son, told police that he was playing basketball at about 2 p.m. Thursday when his father came outside and appeared to be intoxicated, according to a criminal complaint. He said his father got in the way of them playing basketball, and Wesley knocked him over. His father got up and said, "You do that again, you ain't gonna wake up," according to the criminal complaint.

Washington then shot Wesley twice, once in the thigh and once in the calf.

Robert Washington, Jr., who was cutting the grass at the time, ran over to his father. That's when his father shot him in the chest and killed him, according to the complaint. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Wesley Johnson said he then went into the house and called 911. His father followed him inside the house, causing Wesley to run out of the house. Glendale police then called the home, and the father answered.

Washington gave himself up, crawling out of the house and into police custody. Once he was placed in the squad car, he said, “he’s a 15-year-old kid tried bully daddy, bully me all the time.”

When officers arrived at the scene, they found Wesley attending to his older brother in the driveway outside of their house. Wesley said their father was inside the house, so paramedics relocated him to a neighboring driveway before administering first aid.

Robert Washington, Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene. Wesley Washington was transported to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Washington, the alleged shooter, had a slightly different version of that afternoon's events. Washington told police that Wesley was bullying him while they were playing basketball in the driveway, saying he didn't want to play with his dad because he was too old, according to the complaint.

Washington said he tried to block Wesley's shot, and then Wesley "came at him like a football player," knocking him down, according to the criminal complaint.

Washington said his older son Robert tried to stick up for his dad, saying "Why do you hit daddy like that, he is a 60-year-old man." Washington said his son Wesley continued to insult him, prompting him to grab the .45 caliber pistol he keeps in his bedroom.

Washington said he went outside with the gun and told Wesley that he was tired of him talking like that, and then Wesley threw the basketball at him. He said the gun "went off" at that moment, and he does not remember how many shots were fired. He said he was drinking vodka at Wesley's baseball game earlier that afternoon.

He told police, “I should not have brought the gun out. I killed my son,” according to the complaint.

Several neighbors interviewed at the scene described the family as an upstanding family who never caused any problems in the neighborhood, which is just east of Milwaukee River Parkway. Dhein said the shooting has been a shock for the neighborhood and the community.

“This is normally a quiet neighborhood,” he said. “Our thoughts go out to the family. This has been a tough situation for the family and the community.”

June 24, 2014 10:49 a.m. | A Shorewood man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of illegal voting, accused of casting multiple ballots in four elections in 2011 and 2012, including five in the 2012 gubernatorial recall.

Robert D. Monroe, 50, used addresses in Shorewood, Milwaukee and Indiana, according to the complaint, and cast some votes in the names of his son and his girlfriend's son.

According to the complaint:

Monroe cast two ballots in the April 2011 Supreme Court election, two in the August 2011 Alberta Darling recall election, five in the Scott Walker-Tom Barrett recall, one illegal ballot in an August 2012 primary, and two ballots in the November 2012 presidential election.

In the presidential election, Monroe cast an in-person absentee ballot in Shorewood on Nov. 1 and drove a rental car to Lebanon, Ind., where he showed his Indiana driver's license to vote in person on election day, Nov. 6, the complaint charges. Monroe owns a house there, according to the complaint.

Vacant land in the block between Wauwatosa and Swan roads is targeted for development of 360 homes on lots of a half-acre or less, Mequon officials said. The lots would be clustered together to preserve common open space.

There is adequate capacity in the regional sewer system to handle additional wastewater from the proposed development, according to MMSD engineers.

The Mequon-Thiensville School District is owner of the largest undeveloped parcel in the block at 111.7 acres. The School Board will ask voting-age residents of the district attending an annual meeting July 21 to authorize sale of the property. The parcel is surplus and will not be needed for construction of a new school due to declining enrollment, district officials said.

June 20, 2014 4:37 p.m. | Overflows of combined sanitary and storm sewers Wednesday spilled an estimated 336.2 million gallons of untreated wastewater, mostly water with sewage, into local rivers and Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District said Friday.

Combined sewers in central Milwaukee and eastern Shorewood overflowed to waterways for 19.5 hours Wednesday after thunderstorms poured 2 inches or more of rain on those neighborhoods in one hour between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., the district says in a report to the state Department of Natural Resources. This was MMSD's second combined sewer overflow of the year.

Overflows began shortly after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday when the district's deep tunnel system started filling quickly in the heavy downpour.

More than 100 million gallons of water flowed into the main tunnels in just 12 minutes, between 1:52 and 2:04 a.m. Wednesday, according to flow monitors. The torrent took up 23% of the main tunnels' capacity in those few minutes.

MMSD Executive Director Kevin Shafer ordered Jones Island sewage treatment plant operators to start an emergency measure to reduce volumes in the tunnels. Starting at 2:15 a.m., wastewater was pumped directly out of the tunnels and diverted around some treatment to the final step of disinfection where chlorine was added to kill bacteria and pathogens. There it was mixed with fully treated wastewater and discharged to the lake.

June 19, 2014 11:53 p.m. | Milwaukee, Brown Deer, Fox Point, Bayside, Mequon and Port Washington joined the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District in reporting sanitary sewer overflows to local waterways after Wednesday's storms poured several inches of rain across the metropolitan area, state environmental officials said Thursday.

The municipalities and the district relieved storm-swollen flows in a small number of sanitary sewers by pumping excess waste directly to streams, or to ditches and storm sewers that are tributaries to waterways. This is done to prevent backups of sewage into basements.

Each sanitary sewer overflow ended Wednesday, according to notices submitted to the state Department of Natural Resources.

Overflows of combined sanitary and storm sewers in central Milwaukee and eastern Shorewood ended shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to Peter Topczewski, MMSD director of water quality protection. At that time, the district started reopening gates between combined sewers and the deep tunnel system and allowing any continuing overflows to drain to the tunnels, he said.

The combined sewer overflows to waterways started shortly after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday when the gates were closed to preserve remaining space in the tunnels for overflows from separate sanitary sewers. No estimate of the volume of untreated wastewater discharged to local rivers and Lake Michigan was available Thursday.

June 16, 2014 10:13 p.m. | It was a heck of a birthday for Whitefish Bay baseball pitcher Cole Stasiak.

And teammate Turner DeMuth gave him the biggest gift of the night on Monday night as he blew out the candles on upset-minded Germantown's hopes with a laser-beam of a solo home run in the top of the seventh that broke a 1-1 tie.

Stasiak then said "thank you" by putting down Germantown in order in the bottom of the seventh to secure an important 2-1 victory.

"It was a nice day," said Stasiak, who also led the offense with four hits. "It was a kind of game that we've been playing. A lot of close ones. ...It was nice that we could pull it out. That guy (the Warhawks' Danny Knutson) had our number tonight. We definitely didn't do what we normally do (hit the ball), but we found a way."

The win improved the Blue Dukes to 8-1 in North Shore play and 12-2 overall and ran their winning streak to nine games. They sit just ahead of Homestead (6-2) in the league standings. Meanwhile, Germantown fell to 2-4 and 5-7.

June 11, 2014 10:15 a.m. | Whitefish Bay — It took 14 years, but the marriage of Andrew Warner and Jay Edmundson was finally recognized by the state of Wisconsin last week.

When U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb declared the state's gay-marriage ban unconstitutional Friday, June 6, the Whitefish Bay couple was second in line at the Milwaukee County Courthouse for a marriage license. Their tears of joy were mixed with the uncertainty of a brand new court ruling and the panic of finding someone to drive their two sons home from lacrosse practice that afternoon.

The legal ceremony went off without a hitch, essentially ratifying the union created at their first wedding ceremony, which was held at a church 14 years ago.

"Friday was deeply moving and important, but it felt like the state was finally catching up to what we did in 2000," said Warner, a pastor at Plymouth Church on the east side of Milwaukee.

Ever since the chaotic Friday ceremony, Warner and Edmundson have been overwhelmed by kind words from their family, friends and neighbors. Although the couple are married, have two adopted sons — ages 14 and 11 — and a house in Whitefish Bay, Warner said he always felt his family has been viewed differently.

June 08, 2014 6:17 p.m. | Mequon leaders are expecting a surge of home construction on small lots west of Wauwatosa Road if they are able to extend sewer service to 360 undeveloped acres along Donges Bay Road.

Residential developments with houses clustered together to preserve open space around them could be coming to the west side of Mequon, an area of the city where large homes spread across the landscape on 5-acre minimum rural lots are common.

Even though the city does not expect to receive approval until later this month for adding the land to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's service area, Community Development Director Kim Tollefson said she had met with more than half a dozen developers and home builders in the last three weeks who wanted to know the possibilities.

And several property owners in the block of Donges Bay Road between Wauwatosa Road and Swan Road are willing to sell their parcels once sewer service is assured, Tollefson said. The opportunity to connect to sewers boosts property values.

And that finger, broken about a month ago in a fielding accident, along with Soderberg's skill and her teammate's will, allowed the Warhawks to rally from a 6-0 first inning deficit and beat archrival Homestead, 10-7, in a WIAA sectional semifinal game Tuesday night in Germantown.

"Four weeks tommorrow, actually" said Soderberg, after pitching six-plus innings of two-run relief ball. "This was my first real game back. I was a little nervous coming in, but I hit my spots with my pitches. ...and we never got down. We just kept encouraging each other and helping each other get the job done."

Soderberg said the game was very similar to the two teams' first meeting in North Shore play earlier this season when Homestead jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the second before Germantown rallied for a 14-10 victory.

With the win, the Warhawks (16-8) hopes of a third straight WIAA state tournament berth stay intact. They will host Greater Metro Coinference runner-up Brookfield Central in the sectional final on Thursday at 7 p.m. for the right to advance to the WIAA State Toiurnament in Madison, June 12-14.